Word: deviousness
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Dear Lord, Thy Church on devious ways...
...final volume is a diary written by a British officer, Lieutenant John Barker, during the years 1774, 1775, and 1776, when he was stationed in Boston. Only parts of it have been published before; the whole has been passed down by a devious course; its authorship has been determined with great difficulty. Entitled "The British in Boston", it throws important light upon many occurrences during the period, besides illuminating the British view-point on many well-known events. Its notes are by Elizabeth Ellery Dana...
...Business comradeship" is Mr. Durant's counter to the heathen economics of downtown New York, from whose devious lanes he has several times emerged bloody but unbowed. He becomes chairman of the bank which he founds...
...ways of producers are devious and unknowable. In filming The Enemies of Women, Lionel Barrymore and his company were taken abroad to Monte Carlo to play scenes in their actual setting. Later thousands of dollars were spent in constructing an accurate facsimile of the interior of the Casino-and after all this straining after realism the players were allowed to break the Casino rules by placing any size bets they chose...
...ways of Senator Borah's mind are devious and hard to follow. He has long believed that recognition of Soviet Russia by the United States is the sovereign cure for all world ills. In the course of time he has rolled up a considerable following, mostly among the ladies. To such a body Secretary Hughes has just been obliged to make one of his periodic explanations as to why the government did not recognize Russia. With his customary courtesy he repeated the facts that Russia has repudiated international agreements, has confiscated private property has vowed to carry into all other...